{"id":403085,"date":"2026-01-11T18:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T18:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/403085\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T18:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T18:50:09","slug":"heated-rivalry-authors-next-ilya-shane-book-set-for-september-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/403085\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Heated Rivalry\u2019 Author\u2019s Next Ilya & Shane Book Set For September Release"},"content":{"rendered":"

Although the wait is on for Season 2 of Heated Rivalry<\/a>, series creator Jacob Tierney<\/a> will have plenty of source material to work with.<\/p>\n

Following the hit Crave<\/a>\/HBO Max<\/a> series adaptation of Rachel Reid\u2019s Game Changer novels, the author is releasing the seventh book in her hockey romance, Unrivaled, on September 29 of this year.<\/p>\n

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Now available for pre-order<\/a> as a Barnes & Noble exclusive, the synopsis for Unrivaled reads:<\/p>\n

\u201cA line has been drawn\u2014and the hockey world is divided. For the first time in their professional hockey careers, Ilya Rozanov and Shane Hollander have nothing to hide. For more than a decade, they kept their love a secret, but now they\u2019re out, married, and even playing on the same team. The support is incredible. Most of the time.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019ve gotten a lot of love from fans who are thrilled for them. But some people in the hockey world are still reeling from their relationship reveal, and the backlash\u2014led by popular hockey podcast Top Shelf and the #TakeBackHockey movement\u2014is getting louder.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Unrivaled serves as a direct sequel to the previous book The Long Game, which follows Ilya and Shane a decade into their relationship. Fans watched them fall in love during the first season of Tierney\u2019s TV adaptation, which was based on the second book in the series, Heated Rivalry.<\/p>\n

Tierney previously told Deadline that Season 2 will be based on The Long Game, the only other current book in the series that focuses on Ilya and Shane.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t have details. I have not started writing, so I\u2019m not just trying to be evasive. I genuinely don\u2019t know yet,\u201d he prefaced. \u201cI\u2019m so lucky to have a whole world of books here to grab things from, to use, to add color, to add context, to add story. I can tell you I\u2019m really excited to get back to writing. I\u2019m excited to get back into this world with them, and I\u2019m looking forward to it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI guess, here\u2019s what I can say too, is that Heated Rivalry will always be centered around Shane and Ilya, this show. But we have a whole universe here, and so there\u2019s loads of other things that we\u2019re thinking about and that we\u2019re gonna explore and that we\u2019re gonna start to take more seriously now that we know that there\u2019s an audience for it. And that\u2019s pretty exciting, so I\u2019m looking forward to really digging into this world,\u201d added Tierney.<\/p>\n

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